counselor of vice-director of Russian History-and-Military Society.〜who has worked as vice deputy of the Coordination Centre "Novorossiya"〜 He was one of leaders of the Nochnoy Dozor advocacy group that opposed the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn memorial in 2007.
As a spokesman for the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee he is against the integration policies of Estonia and Latvia, claiming they are "apartheid policies". On the whole, he does not recognize them as states. Bäckman 〜 also claims to represent the separatist Donetsk People's Republic in Finland.